Los archivos feministas como una gestión pública del trauma

Abstract

I will share from a personal experience, but never individual, but collective, some reflections
on the exercise of putting together archives in/with different feminist collectives in Cordoba. I will take as a case the archive of Cordoba’s feminisms, the exhibition we organized for the 6th Congress of Gender and Society: Transfeminist Archives: a common genealogy, and the 7th of March, day of lesbian visibility. With the aim of continuing to reflect on the strategies that we collectives have given ourselves to build memory. To do this I will take three theoretical categories to reflect on the archives and their possibilities, on the one hand I will use the notion of Trauma Management that works Ann Cvetkovich in her book: Archive
of feelings (2003), to think about the collective that gathers on 7M and its activities that function as a public culture of trauma. On the other hand, with the notion of vulnerability worked by Judith Butler in Undoing Gender (2010), I will approach the assembly of the Cordovan feminist archives. And finally, with the notion of precariousness, I will analyze the conformation of the archive exposed in the 6th Congress of Gender and Society. In this text, I intend to bring, through a singular and collective voice, reflections and questions that were presented to me as part of these collective processes of archiving, making use of an idea that liberalism won us, but nevertheless still has the charm of involvement that implies thinking that the personal is political.